Device for supplying water to flush-tanks.



W. A. ALEXANDER.

DEVICE FOR SUPPLYING WATER T0 FLUSH TANKS.

(Application filed J une 9l 1900.)

(No Rodel.)

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UNITE STATES WILLIAM A. ALEXANDER, OE WILKINSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

DEVICE FOR SUPPLYING WATER TO FLUSH-TANKS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 669,193, dated March 5, 1901.

Applica-zon inea Jui@ 9,1900.

T0 @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. ALEXAN- DER, a citizen ofthe United States of America, residing at l/Vilkinsburg, in the county ofAllegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have in- Vented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Supplying Water to Flush- Tanks; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specication.

This invention relates to an improved device for supplying water to flush-tanks connected to sewers, closets, dce.; and it consists in the certain details of construction and combination of parts as will be fully described hereinafter.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a side sectional elevation of my improved device for supplying water to fiushtanks,which is constructed and arranged in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional end elevation of the same, the said section taken through the line X X of Fig. l.

To construct a device for supplying water to flush-tanks in accordance with my invention, Iprovide an elbow l of a suitable size and attach the same to a water-supply pipe (not shown) by means of a screw-thread 2. Connected to this elbow l is a T connection 3, the lower end of which is fitted with a short section of tubing ll, closed at its extremity by a cap 13. Attached to the T connection 3 by means of a screw-thread is a short pipe 4:, which is connected by a coupling 6 to another, 5, of about the same length and diameter, and

the two pipes separated by a baffle-plate 7.

Serial No. 19.665. (No model.)

This baffle-plate 7 consists of a disk having a segment 8 removed from the top of the same, which will provide communication between the two pipes 4 and 5. The outer extremity of the pipe 5 is closed by a cap 9, and the said pipe provided on its under side with a small perforation 10.

In operation the Vertical tube 12 acts as a sediment-chamber and the water slowly escaping from the perforation l0 into the tank will gradually fill the same, and the tank emptied by a siphon in the usual manner for the purpose of liushing sewers, waterclosets,&c.

Various slight modifications and changes may-be made in the details of construction without departing from the spirit of the invention.

I-Iaving thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The herein-described device for supplying water to hush-tanks for sewers, closets, dto., consisting of the sediment-chamber l2 in communication with the water-supply pipe, the horizontal branch pipe 4 5, the baffieplate '7 arranged in the said branch to check or retard the flow of the water to the outlet, and a perforation l0 arranged in the branch pipe 4 5, beyond the battle-plate, all arranged and combined for service substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

W. A. ALEXANDER.

Witnesses:

JOHN J. JENNINGS, J oHN GROETZINGER. 

